A lot of the world’s fertilizer turns out to come from that area and normally get shipped through the strait. And the United States, we’re a great agricultural nation, and we do import significant amounts of fertilizer. We import a large share of our fertilizer, and some of it from the Persian Gulf, a significant share of that.
So this is having a direct impact on U.S. farmers.
Most people in the United States are significantly adversely affected by the spillover from this war. Now, oil companies, particularly oil refiners, who seem to be seeing a big explosion in their margins, they’re doing well, but what good does that do the rest of us? It’s not as if the U.S. has any fiscal measures in place to capture those gains. So this is in fact, this is hitting the United States, it’s hitting all of us quite hard, and it may be actually kind of catastrophic because plans, plans to travel, never mind, but plans to plant crops may be seriously endangered by all of this.
Has anybody told Trump about this? From everything we’re reading, the answer is probably not. Basically, we’re in a situation where the courtiers don’t tell the emperor that he has no clothes and don’t tell him that actually war in the Persian Gulf really hurts the United States a lot, too. So, you know, God knows.
The more you read about it the more you realize it is just incredibly stupid.